Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she and her older brother were raised by their grandmother after the divorce of their parents.
Paul Benjamin
Freeman
Diahann Carroll
Vivian
Ruby Dee
Grandmother Baxter
Roger E. Mosley
Bailey, Sr.
Esther Rolle
Momma
Madge Sinclair
Miss Flowers
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
The Hate U Give
Sonny Jim Gaines
Uncle Willie
Art Evans
Principal
Constance Good
Maya
John M. Driver II
Bailey, Jr.
Georgia Allen
Mrs. Gurney
J. Don Ferguson
Mr. Donleavy
Heaven
Skin
Antwone Fisher
The Glass Castle
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Disgrace
Frankie & Alice
The Great Debaters
The Prince of Tides
Breathe
An Education
Freedom Writers
Starving in Suburbia
Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B
The Lords of Discipline
Showbiz Kids
Boyhood
Hillbilly Elegy